I’ve been trying to figure out why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (likely following orders handed down from the White House) was so determined to hold a vote on a bill to increase government control over one-sixth of our economy the week after her party suffered its worst shellacking at the [...]
I have had one of those weeks that you remember for the rest of your life. On Tuesday, I won a congressional election. On Thursday, I was sworn in by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and got to cast the first vote of my congressional career: a resolution honoring female veterans and [...]
President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, key House and Senate Democratic and Republicans, and most importantly the major pharmaceuticals and private insurers know one thing, and they've known it from the start of the health care debate. And that's that the senate not the' [...]
"Passing this amendment [...]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi allowed only two amendments to be brought up to the nearly 2000-page health reform bill. One was the Republican substitute to the Democrat’s measure. The other was on abortion.
Lawmakers got 20 minutes to debate a bipartisan amendment that would make it crystal clear that [...]
Speaker Nancy Pelosi,flanked by Rep. James Clyburn, left, and President Barack Obama, right.
President Barack Obama was in the White House Rose Garden a few minutes ago urging lawmakers to vote yes on health reform even [...]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has just declared that health care legislation will pass the House tonight, following President Obama's visit to the House.
"We will be making history with our vote,"...
Rep. John Campbell (R-Orly Taitz and BSS with Michelle Bachman R-Bat$#!+ crazy) sent this email out today; read it first and then Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s response busting myths on healthcare reform.
From John Campbell:
Factoid of the Day: The Pelosi [...]
Garamendi
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sworn in California’s newest congressman this morning, Democrat John Garamendi of the 10th District.
Watch the ceremony and Garamendi’s comments at roughly at this link: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/ID/214961&start=7711&end=8274 Scroll over to 129:20 or so to the start of the Garamendi swearing-in portion of the video.
Read [...]
President Barack Obama told Native American tribal leaders today that he is determined to reverse the federal government’s history of marginalizing and ignoring the plight of Indian nations.
** QUICK HITS. Speaker Nancy Pelosi says that her house of Congress will vote out national health care on Saturday. … A [...]
We received the following press announcement from Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office this afternoon.
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi will hold a ceremonial swearing-in for Congressman-elect John Garamendi of California on Thursday, November 5 at Noon.
Garamendi will be sworn [...]
The sound you will hear will be the air [...]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and scores of her Democratic colleagues just assembled on the Capitol steps as she unveiled the House health care bill that she’d like to get voted upon by the middle of next month.
The bill the majority is introducing today isn’t all [...]
President Barack Obama spent early Thursday morning honoring the return of fallen soldiers. Obama attended the return of 18 soldiers killed this week in Afghanistan at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
** QUICK HITS. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today unveiled a national health care reform bill that has won [...]
